Saw-handle.



Patented June 6, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

GERRARD MILLER REDDY, OF BOWIE, LOUISIANA.

SAWQHANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 791,817, dated June 6, 1905.

Application filed Juile 18, 1904. Serial No. 213,110.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GERRARD MILLER REDDY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Bowie, in the parish of Lafour'che and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and Improved Saw-Handle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to a handle intended specially for drag or cross-cut saws; and the object is to provide a handle which may be readily applied to saws of various sizes, holding them with entire security.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement, which will be fully described hereinafter and pointed out in the claims.-

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, 'in which drawings like letters of reference indicate like parts in the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of one end of a drag-saw, illustrating my improved handle in section. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view of the handle; and Fig. 3 is an end elevation, partly in section, on the line 3 3 of' Flg. 2.

The handle comprises amain portion a, constructed of wood or other suitable material and having a tubular extension 6 at one end, said extension being internally threaded, as shown. Fitting within the tubular extension I) is a correspondingly threaded thimble 0, provided at its outer end with a kerf c. A clamping-rod d is screwed within the thimble 0 and is formed'witha longitudinal slot d,

adapted to receive the end of the saw, as shown in Fig. 2.

In the use of the invention the thimble c is screwed into the body a of the handle, and the clamp-rod OZ is screwed into the thimble. The end of the saw is then inserted in the slot d of the clamp-rod, the thimble having been first screwed down on the clamp-rod so that the distance between the upper end of its kerfc and the lower end ,of the slot d will be equal to the width'of the end of the saw to which the handle is to be applied. Then the main part of the handle should be screwed down on the thimble so as to engage the lower end of the extension 6 of the main part firmly against the upper edge of the saw. This, it may be observed, will cause the clamp-rod d to grip the saw firmly at its lower edge, while the upper edge of the saw is engaged with equal firmness with the extension 6 of the main part of the handle. The kerf c prevents relative turning movement of the thimble and clamprod when engaged with the saw. It will be observed that owing to the adjustment of the clamp-rod longitudinally in thethimble the handle may be made to fit saws of various widths, and by providing a clamp-bar of sufiicient length and, if necessary, recessing the main part of the handle the device may be made capable of engaging saws of any size generally practically employed.

Various changes in the form, proportions, and minor details of my invention may be resorted to at will without departing from the spirit and scope thereof. Hence I consider myself entitled .to all such variations as may lie within the terms of my claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A saw-handle comprising a main part having a tubular interiorly-threaded extension, an exteriorly and interiorly threaded thimble fitting and operating within said extension of the main part of the handle and adapted to bear on one edge of the saw and a clamp-rod adapted to engage the end of the saw and threaded to operate within the thimble, the outer end of the thimble having a kerf therein, adapted to receive the said edge of the'saw.

2. A saw-handle comprising a main part having a tubular interiorly-threaded extension, an exteriorly and interiorly threaded thimble fitting and operating within said extension of the main part of the handle and adapted to bear on one edge of the saw a clamp-rod adapted to engage the end of the saw and threaded to operate within the thimble, and means preventing relative turning movement of the thimble and clamp-rod when engaged with the saw.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GERRARD MILLER REDDY.

Witnesses:

O. W. LIVELY, A. M. SMITH. 

